Mountains and rivers pray for peace

Chapter 115 Dirty Past

"If my prediction is correct, Master Huixuan hid these dirty things in my eldest brother's room because he wanted to frame the disaster of the concubine Jing's statue and blame it on my eldest brother, right?" Huo Qi's tone did not distinguish between joy and anger, but he didn't The origin is disturbing.

Huixuan's eyes didn't move, he was still a bit afraid in front of Emperor Xiaowen, but in front of a little girl, he would not lose his demeanor of an eminent monk.

What Huo Qi said was correct, he had already received the instruction from his superiors, and ordered someone to secretly stuff the alum for preparing jade fat into the meditation room where Huo Xian lived during the interval between delivering the fast meal.

When the jade fat on Yuguanyin's face fell off, Emperor Xiaowen was furious, and he pointed out that someone had pretended to be a jade statue, and led Emperor Xiaowen to search the Zen room.When this thing was found from Huo Xian's meditation room, the blame for this matter was naturally directed at Huo Xian.At that time, the truth will be that Chen Dongrong presents a statue of the noble concubine, while Huo Xian, the Pingbei general, and Huang Zhongting, the Shaofu supervisor, deliberately conceal it and even help the evildoers.

Emperor Xiaowen thought more deeply that the fifth prince secretly colluded with Duke Ning and was dissatisfied and resentful towards Emperor Xiaowen, so he asked Emperor Xiaowen to kneel down at the knees of Concubine Jing, whom he had abandoned with his own hands.

But how did Miss Huo know these things?

Huixuan's thoughts suddenly disappeared. He remembered that day when Huo Qi stopped Huo Xian to hand over the keys to the iron carriage. Suddenly he raised his head and saw the young man in black clothes behind Huo Qi again.He was so frightened just now that he ignored the shadow standing in the dark, but he could not forget this face. It was His Highness the Seventh Prince standing next to Queen Mother Pei.After a few coincidences, Huixuan suddenly woke up. Could it be that His Highness Seventh Prince and Miss Huo were conspiring behind the sudden changes that happened today?
Huixuan blurted out: "You did what happened today?"

Huo Qi sighed and quickly admitted: "Yes. It's just that my little girl still doesn't know something, so I ask the master to give me some advice."

Huo Qi saw that Huixuan lowered his head and was unwilling to speak. He paused and said: "Master Huixuan is well-known outside the world. Everyone in the world knows that Master Huixuan has a good Zen style and a lot of wisdom. He has been the abbot of Baotan Temple these years, and he is extremely Receiving royal courtesy is already beyond words. Isn’t this enough, and you have to become a harming pawn in the hands of others?”

Huo Qi told the truth word for word, but Huixuan no longer panicked at the revelation, but closed his eyes: "Since the benefactor already knows the truth, and the poor monk is now in jail as the benefactor wished, why bother to use it again?" Asking each other about common things?"

"Oh, if I say that I am not here for today's matters, but to interrogate all the monks of Baotan Temple who died ten years ago, I wonder if the master is still willing to answer my questions?" Huo Qi's voice was colder than the capital's. The cold wind is even colder.

Huixuan's face suddenly turned as white as a sheet of paper, and his calmness just now was torn to pieces. Even his lips couldn't help but tremble: "You...what did you say?"

"It's only been ten years, Master has forgotten?" Huo Qi originally just wanted to deceive Hui Xuan, but seeing Hui Xuan's look on his face made him even more sure of what he was thinking.

Before Huo Xian handed her the account book of Baotan Temple, she had always firmly believed that Huixuan belonged to the second prince.But when the name of Hongtong Cabinet appeared in that account book, the matter was different.

When she knew about Hongtong Cabinet in her last life, Hongtong Cabinet had been raided by the imperial court.There is no other reason, only because behind the Hongtong cabinet shop is He Qi, the owner of Wohai Village in Fuzhou.

Ten years ago, He Qi was just a little-known bandit on Canghu Mountain in Fuzhou. He became famous because of his cruel tactics, cruelty and combativeness. With the support of a large number of exiles, He Qi took over the mountain and became king. Swaggeringly started a black-hearted business.

The magistrate of Yanzhou could still turn a blind eye to Wohaizhuang's robbery and lending business.Unexpectedly, the lack of people's hearts actually came up with the idea of ​​robbing official salt and selling private salt at a sky-high price that was more than ten times the market price. As a result, more than [-]% of the local people could not afford salt, their legs were swollen, and they could not even farm, let alone join the army. fight.

Salt has always been the foundation of a country, and this incident touched the court's rebellion. Emperor Xiaowen sent troops to clean up several times, but Canghu Mountain was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and several groups of officers and soldiers returned without success.Empress Xiaowen learned from the painful experience and personally pointed out that the most strategic general in the court, Zhao Xin, went there. But before Zhao Xin attacked the mountain, he found that hundreds of people in Wohaizhuang disappeared overnight.Later, the imperial court spent several years searching for its traces, but finally gave up on the matter of clearing and suppressing Wohaizhuang.

Therefore, as soon as the Hongtong cabinet shop in the previous life was inspected, it caused a huge wave in the capital, and every household talked about it.After all, who would have thought that He Qi, the bandit leader who did many evils, had not been hiding in the past ten years, but transformed himself into the treasurer of the No. [-] bank in the capital?

However, the imperial court did not clean up the inspection of the Hongtong cabinet workshop.When the troops were sent there, He Qi had already fled, and the bandits in Wohaizhuang also disappeared.

When she heard about this matter in her previous life, she was still confused, how could such a reckless person know such top-secret news that the court had sealed it in advance and escape in advance?Where were the numerous Wohaizhuang bandits hiding, so that the court only caught dozens of boys in the street of Hongtong Cabinet?These mysteries are unexpectedly solved in this life.

"What nonsense are you talking about? I don't understand." Huixuan was still pretending to be stupid.

Huo Qi returned to his thoughts and sneered: "Then let me speak more clearly. I'm afraid Baotan Temple is no longer the Baotan Temple ten years ago. After all, all the monks died ten years ago! These monks today , just Wohaizhuang bandits in black robes. Hongtong Cabinet is willing to guarantee Baotan Temple because it is the same master behind it."

Shen Yuning had been standing in the dark without saying a word, but when she heard Huo Qi revealing the secret that Baotan Temple had concealed for many years, she couldn't help but glance at her with interest.

Although he had heard about Wohaizhuang for a long time, he didn't know that He Qi was hiding behind the Hongtong cabinet shop and staged a show of stealing the day.Not to mention him, even the spies under Emperor Xiaowen who have followed this matter for many years may not have any clues.How did Huo Qi know about it?Ten years ago, she was just a five-year-old doll.

Huixuan quickly asked Shen Yuning what was on his mind: "How did you find out?"

"I lived in Baotan Temple for ten days, and every night I would go to the main hall to listen to Zen. Interestingly, the monks in Baotan Temple can't even recite the simplest Diamond Sutra, and some old monks don't have years of experience in their hands. Isn't it strange to move the thick cocoon formed by the rosary?" Huo Qi smiled and grabbed Hui Xuan's middle finger, and there was a protruding callus on the middle finger.

The reason why she was able to think of the key point was that the guidance of her past life memory was only one aspect, and the second prince's subordinates had an indescribable familiarity with Hongtong Cabinet when they kidnapped her in Longyang Peak a few months ago.The most important thing is that as soon as she stepped into Baotan Temple, she felt abnormal. The wandering eyes of those novice monks were full of intentionally hidden desires.

Huixuan broke away from Huo Qi's hand and fell to the ground. The fear on his face turned into a look of pain, and his turbid old eyes shed tears uncontrollably: "The poor monk can't help it... If the poor monk didn't do this, I'm afraid he would have died sooner." just die..."

"If it was out of helplessness back then, why did you collude with the murderer all these years?" Huo Qi's tone was extremely sarcastic, and then he changed the subject, "You can live for several years only because you are the abbot of Baotan Temple. Your position determines that you cannot be easily replaced, otherwise you will definitely arouse the court's suspicion. But if today's incident happened, you might not survive tonight."

Huixuan stopped crying, and said in a daze, "What do you mean? They want to kill me to silence me?"

"Master Huixuan, with so many eyes staring at Baotan Temple, do you think they already know about my coming to see you?" Huo Qi smiled, with a bit of innocent cruelty in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)